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Climate tech/policy, elections, and legislative nerd ☀️⚡️🔋⚡️⚛️ Opinions are my own
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Legislative procedure peeps: what would happen if a member of congress just started objecting to unanimous consent in the House? Obv some things would just be a 5 or 15 minute vote, but would other motions have to get kicked to a committee or placed on a calendar?

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

What OMB is doing violates the constitution itself. The ICA fills in the details of how congress and the executive interact over the spending power, but finding the ICA unconstitutional and ratifying OMB’s action here would mean overthrowing the most fundamental constitutional design.

submitted 47 days ago • 35 comments

Terrifying how muted the response has been from the press to the admin just straight up breaking the law. This and the Inspectors General firings are basically Jan. 6 levels of unconstitutional and they're framing it like a policy debate??

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

Please wait to tell big tech that AI and Crypto are just massive bubbles until AFTER they've fully bankrolled geothermal and SMRs. 🔌💡

submitted 112 days ago • 2 comments

🔌💡After a few days of digging into the legislation and policy, I can confidently say it is impossible to tell what will actually happen to NEVI (EV charging station grant program from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law/IIJA) and Inflation Reduction Act credits (inc. $7,500 EV credit). A 🧵:

submitted 121 days ago • 2 comments

i would happily pay a few dollars a month to keep this place viable.

submitted 123 days ago • 513 comments

Energy 🔌💡 and environmental bsky, I have a question: if individual states/municipalities want to reduce their emissions enough for the entire US to meet it's climate goals, what would be the highest impact policies? Assuming places like TX also have reductions due to cheap renewables, EVs, etc

submitted 124 days ago • 2 comments